YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

Thanks. That is good idea. Sometimes putting another voice in my ear helps me as well. Sometimes it is so easy to get lost in your own head and lose sense of everything. It is interesting to pretend you are them. It is my tendency to compare sometimes, if I feel the person is smarter/saner. That fee...

Right now I feel sad, lonely, and scared. The depression conglomeration I should say. I wish I could say I have a legitimate reason. But I just feel overwhelmed. Life has messed with my head a bit and I want it to stop. Most likely I just need to go to bed, but am overtired and in my head and thus h...

Hugs! Major hugs!

So I struggle with body and eating issues. Never full blown eating disorder, but disordered thoughts. Anyway, last week it has been bad. Oddly I had some medical stuff that led to me having to not eat for a day, liquid diet kind of thing. Somehow that spurred on a desire to restrict. I am still eati...

Hi. Thanks Kanata. Do you know what brand yours is?

-Melissa

I was just wondering if anyone uses a light therapy box for seasonal affective DIsorder (SAD) or if anyone has recommendations? Both my therapist and psychiatrist have suggested it for me. I am not good as these days get darker. Feedback?

This is something I struggle with. I am in therapy at the moment. Still struggling with body image issues and depression. I am like a little over 5'4, at my heaviest I was like 180, smallest like 118 (back in high school). Now I am like 135ish. I feel so fat though. In high school was closest I was ...

Thanks Tony. Good to know.

True lamictal is used for epilepsy, but I am on it for mood regulation. It is also used off-label for depression, and bipolar disorder. It is supposed to work well for Bipolar II. Although, an interesting tidbit from Wikipedia states: In Japan, Lamotrigine is classified as a narcotic and prior to en...

Hi Jennifer, Thanks for the reply. At the moment I am doing well. I have drank a little on it, but I am on a low dose. Limiting myself to 2 drinks max now, and have been home with parents while drinking, so very safe environment. Definitely more of a light weight, but nothing bad from it. I have nev...